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...when a squad of 15 Castro security guards headed out to obliterate the nuisance, the New York cops turned them back. Hotel Owner Edward Spatz could not have cared less about his distinguished guests. Suddenly, at dinner time, the lobby elevator door popped open and Fidel Castro-arms waving, beard wagging, voice rising and falling with rage-stormed out of the hotel with his pileous crew pounding after him. Behind him he left a string of rooms soaked with cigar smoke, strewed .with molding food, and torn asunder-and Owner Spatz with his ulcer acting up again...
...Want." When Murtaugh sits on the bench among his Pirates, he is the classic domineering manager. He peers dourly at the diamond from beneath a black hedgerow of eyebrows. His nose is splayed flat, his beard would discourage a blowtorch, a corner of his mouth leaks tobacco juice. But Murtaugh is in fact a gentle ogre who sips milk after a game, claims he never touches the hard stuff, and keeps his hairy hands off the Pirates. Murtaugh realizes full well that overmanaging would cramp the egos-and crimp the play-of the bunch of oddly assorted personalities...
...endless war between bureaucracy and the individual, a new skirmish was being fought last week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don the navy-blue uniform of his chosen calling. But since the Sikh Holy Book, the Adi Granth. says that "a Sikh is never to wear a cap or shave his beard or head,'' Singh Sagar asked permission to keep his shoulder-length hair under a smoothly coiled turban rather than...
...P.S.P. triumvirate, went quietly into Castro's Sierra Maestra redoubt and began talking with leading rebels. To Castro, Rodríguez promised Red support with no strings attached. Rodríguez reportedly got the rank of captain in the rebel army and grew the standard beard, which he continues to wear...
Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...